i wld destroy the world just to ensure his death
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 15:34 (nine years ago) link
as sociological study he's invaluable
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 10 June 2015 15:34 (nine years ago) link
and as such makes me want to ascend from this earth
Working on a new game like bananagrams but each tile has 'del', 'la', 'va', or 'do' on it. You win by forming the grittiest sounding scrub baller name with your randomly chosen tiles. The tiles are stored in a fabric wallaby pouch or something.
― Mr. Murphy in the wine bar. (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
xxp what do you mean exactly?
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 15:36 (nine years ago) link
(asking bc this idea intrigues and horrifies me)
Don't forget that the curry klay iggy lee bogut starting 5 was the best (or one of the best) starting 5 in the nba last year. I'm all for it
― Spottie, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 15:38 (nine years ago) link
bogut seems... injured
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 15:40 (nine years ago) link
if u were choking for five straight days u'd prob end up injured too
― head clowning instructor (art), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
tru cld be a throat injury
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
Greens got a back prob since that fall trying block lebron whatever game that was but not sure boguts hurt. Just needs to pull his head out of his ass.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
its good that he has been sent to the hospital and hopefully he will die imo
― lag∞n, Wednesday, June 10, 2015 11:17 AM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark
strongly agree
― 龜, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 15:56 (nine years ago) link
this thread is pretty hilarious all around over the past few days, with this as the peak so far:
I'm aware they're playing badly. psychology has to be a part of it at this point, like what physical explanation for a team this good to fall prey to a team that isn't objectively playing "well" other than I guess defensively― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, June 9, 2015 8:37 PM
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, June 9, 2015 8:37 PM
― alpine static, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 16:20 (nine years ago) link
"what explanation is there for this team playing so poorly other than the other team is doing a great job of stopping their offense?"
― alpine static, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 16:21 (nine years ago) link
sure ok
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 16:22 (nine years ago) link
i acknowledged that and also made room for the possibility that they might be kind of shook, which sucks
when a horribly taken shot goes in can you not say that it was poorly taken (like almost every shot matthew dellavedova has taken) or does it going in objectively make it good somehow i think there's still room for criticism
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 16:25 (nine years ago) link
and frustration - that a style that shouldn't in a vacuum work in 2015's NBA but is working, and one that should work (and did all season and most of the playoffs) and isn't
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
this is sort of what i was talking about earlier https://twitter.com/sherwoodstrauss/status/608656995823046656
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 10 June 2015 16:29 (nine years ago) link
this klay jumper in particular https://twitter.com/sherwoodstrauss/status/608668130957750272
how are they drawing barely any fouls other than a touch of #homecookin?
during the playoffs, but especially during the finals, the refs change what's usually a foul during the season into just 'contact'. this has always bugged me.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 16:34 (nine years ago) link
klay had a few shots where he pump faked, shifted his feet, then decided to take an off-balance shot anyway. it was infuriating
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 10 June 2015 16:34 (nine years ago) link
sorry i don't mean to be a shit, but sloth your take throughout this thread has essentially been "the Warriors are great why do they look so terrible, Delly is terrible why is he hitting shots?" and all I'm saying is the Cavs are locked in on defense and despite the media narrative around Delly, he is (and has been all season) a contributing member of one of the best teams in the NBA. the guy can play. don't let Stephen A. Smith's disbelief fool you into thinking like the Cavs hired some homeless guy off the street to come in, drop 20 and shut down the MVP.
i *get* that Steph >>> Delly and the Warriors >>> Cavs. truly. but this is not smoke and mirrors. this is the best player in the world and a scrappy bunch of professional athletes (plus J.R. Smith, ha) playing their asses off and causing big problems for a VERY good but very young team that up to this point has simply floated thru the process to get to this point in a league where it has been proven time and time again that you have to overcome adversity to break thru and win a title.
that said, it'll be fucking shocking / amazing if the Cavs finish this off.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link
and i hope they do
delly was godawful most of this season, did emerge in the hawks series and i mostly assumed that was bc of how crippled the hawks were but hey maybe not, now he's done what he's done especially defensively, he strangled steph in game 2 i'm not denying this, that doesn't mean i can stop myself from saying WHAT THE FUCK bc what the warriors do is a style i appreciate and think will/should redefine the NBA
i'm honestly not in the anti-lebron crowd and if he pulls off a series win with what he has behind him thats an undeniable achievement and i like kyrie a ton, wish he was in the series, it would def temper my annoyance at the one way ticket to ISOville shit if there was a real shooter on the floor besides JR and delly, mozgov has been for real, etc.
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link
motion for a 25-post daily limit for slothrop on ILH
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 10 June 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
― k3vin k., Wednesday, June 10, 2015 12:34 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah noticed that
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
― alpine static, Wednesday, June 10, 2015 12:41 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is part of it but i dont think it really makes sense without understanding the element that the dubs are just playing bad too, i mean u can tell yr argument is incomplete by how much of it is balanced on the word "scrappy" in the middle there
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link
This is reminding me a lot of that Mavs/Heat finals, Mavs were just Dirk and Chandler + a bunch of dudes that didn't seem to belong on a finals roster, at least not at that stage in their careers, but they just seemed to counter what the Heat were doing so well and Miami had no clue how to respond to it
― frogbs, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link
this cavs team is like that allen iverson finals team except lebron can do more than AI
― 龜, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link
cavs are not as good at defense as ppl are giving them credit for
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 16:56 (nine years ago) link
I remember a mjax bit where they were praising delly's d and one of the clips they showed was literally delly and curry fucking standing there at the tip of the arc.
― not a garbageman, i am garbage, man (m bison), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link
but i mean ppl are prob also not considering how much credit theyre giving the cavs for the warriors offensive struggles, its like the greatest defensive performance ever if its all them doing it
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link
their major (one, possibly) defensive accomplishment has been slowing down curry but that's had a huge ripple effect on the other starters
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link
James Jones was also a non factor during the regular season but right now he's coming in, hitting his threes. He's a hacker on D but he can't play a lot of minutes anyway.
― brownie, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 16:59 (nine years ago) link
Warriors haven't exactly floated through the playoffs, their playoff W/L record notwithstanding. Only a handful of blowouts, and the rest of the games were all decided within 10 points.
PS I hate this game, someone comfort me.
― Falconetti Pot (Leee), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 17:02 (nine years ago) link
feel like in general warriors have only truly fired on all cylinders maybe 3 times in this playoff run, something i could def chalk up to youth/inexperience
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link
Ethan J. Skolnick @EthanJSkolnick 14 minutes agoLeBron watched Chopped, not game film, to decompress last night at 2am
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:16 (nine years ago) link
leee and cad otm. dubs only had one game where they clicked for 3+ quarters.
klay and curry missed a lot of shots at the beginning that were wide open off great screens. Just be like that sometimes
― Spottie, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:19 (nine years ago) link
Warriors haven't exactly floated through the playoffs
they won their series 4-0, 4-2, 4-1 and avoided the Spurs and Clippers, is my point.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:21 (nine years ago) link
i think dova has taken really good shots overall. he's just not that good of a shooter so he clanked a few he's taking what the warriors are giving him without hesitating (unlike DPOY MIP MAX CONTRACT draymond). that fast break pass to lebro was pin point perfect i thought klay would get that no problem. so many run killing plays by the dova and the cavs
― Spottie, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:25 (nine years ago) link
Delly's jumper makes LeBron's look smooth
and yeah, that alley-oop to LeBron was super high degree of difficulty...that play was moving so fast I didn't think there was any way LBJ could finish it
― alpine static, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
klay had that thing measured up too. he kinda hesitated so he could get his legs to go get the ball https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTw2i7k7ZLQklay shoulda made that layup on the other end tho.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link
how many minutes have the warriors lead in this series?
― brownie, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 19:10 (nine years ago) link
lebro wiping out currys legs with no call.
if the cavs somehow come away with this, this is the play i will remember from this series i'm pretty sure
― Clay, Wednesday, June 10, 2015 4:01 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
100% I literally jumped up and said what you can't slide tackle a ballhandler!
― juice college (agent hibachi), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 19:10 (nine years ago) link
It was nice that the real Steph finally showed up but I still feel like everyone but klay (maybe) and iggy is just still wondering why their regular shits not working and haven't quite gotten up to full intensity yet, better happen next game
Meantime Lebron is in like utter maximum overdrive, he should probably spend three weeks in the hot tub after this series
― juice college (agent hibachi), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 19:12 (nine years ago) link
My bet is that his secret motivation is that he is opting out and going to re-sign with Miami for the minimum and he hopes to just leave Cleveland with the one ring
― juice college (agent hibachi), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 19:13 (nine years ago) link
windhorst is thinking that his 'secret motivation' is being 3rd in the mvp race. basically proving that he's better than curry, which, well, yeah, but he wasn't for a full season. whatever it is its working.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 19:15 (nine years ago) link
he hopes to just leave Cleveland with the one ring
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a0/KissBeforeDying.JPG
― brownie, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 19:17 (nine years ago) link
without understanding the element that the dubs are just playing bad too,
not really an actual response to someone trying to give their take on why they're playing bad
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 19:52 (nine years ago) link
like them being young and not having gone thru adversity and now facing some on the biggest stage is at least an attempt to explain it rather than just *shrug* they're playing badly.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 19:54 (nine years ago) link